It’d be easy to think Everybody’s Everything, the painfully intimate documentary on the late Lil Peep, is a strictly-for-the-fans endeavor — that the only audience are the people who heard songs like “U Said” or “Crybaby” and felt like someone had mysteriously tapped into their own inner monologues. And yes, …
Read More »Pelosi Says Trump Is an 'Insecure Imposter'
“I think [Trump] knows full well that he’s in that office way over his head,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday morning. Pelosi was a guest on CBS News’ Face the Nation and when asked why the president tweeted about Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony in …
Read More »Big Machine, Taylor Swift Camp Spar Over American Music Awards, Netflix Controversy
Taylor Swift‘s former label Big Machine Group said it was “shocked” by the pop star’s claim that the label is preventing her from performing her old songs on television, telling her “the narrative you have created does not exist.” On Thursday, Swift posted on social media that Big Machine Label …
Read More »DJ Shadow Throws an Epic Pity Party on 'Our Pathetic Age'
The last three years have been somber, sobering and not much fun, with only intermittent beams of sunlight. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but the same goes for Our Pathetic Age, DJ Shadow’s first record since before the 2016 election. Shadow’s music has never been overtly political, but rarely has an …
Read More »Country Music Veteran Trent Reznor Nabs His First CMA Award
When Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus‘ record-breaking “Old Town Road” was presented with the CMA Award for the off-camera category Musical Event of the Year on Wednesday, it was historic for a few reasons. For starters, it marks the first CMA win for Atlanta-based rapper-singer Lil Nas X, …
Read More »This Is What a White Nationalist Administration Looks Like
Elections have consequences, and when white nationalists get elected, those consequences can be catastrophic. The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era program that shielded some undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation, as well as allowed …
Read More »Beck Unveils EP Recorded at Prince's Paisley Park Studios
Beck has released a new extended play, recorded at Prince’s legendary Paisley Park Studios. The Paisley Park Sessions EP features renditions of Beck’s “Where It’s At” and “Up All Night” along with a medley of Prince covers, including “Kiss,” “Raspberry Beret” and “1999.” “I’ve heard the name since I was …
Read More »'Westworld' Teases Season 3 With Chilling Ad: 'Data Is Destiny'
HBO has teased the upcoming third season of Westworld with a faux commercial hinting that the line separating humans and androids becomes blurrier when the sci-fi series returns. Whereas all of the action from Seasons 1 and 2 occurred under the umbrella of the Delos corporation’s theme park, the latest …
Read More »Trump's Takeover of America's Courts Just Hit a Terrifying New Milestone
WASHINGTON —Thursday, November 7 was a fateful day for the courts in America. By an 86-2 margin, the U.S. Senate approved William Nardini to a lifetime appointment on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals — Trump’s 45th appointment of an appeals-court judge. On the same day, the Senate Judiciary Committee …
Read More »China Sentences Man to Death for Trafficking Illegal Fentanyl to U.S.
A Chinese man was convicted and sentenced to death for trafficking fentanyl to the United States, The New York Times reports. Liu Yong was accused of running an illegal operation that produced fentanyl and shipped it to the United States, where people were able to order it online via a …
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